Modern Middle East History and Politics

Finding Books, Journals, and Government Documents in Rod Library

• Search UNISTAR, Rod Library's online catalog
  • Keyword search
  • Subject search
  • Journal Title search
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  • Use an asterisk to truncate a term: politic* = politics, political, politician
  • Use quote marks to search for a phrase: "Middle East"
  • Use AND, OR, NOT to narrow or broaden your search

Rod Library Databases (Can be found on Databases A-Z page)

• JSTOR: Full-text scholarly journal articles in many subjects, including political science, geography, history and sociology
• PAIS International: Indexes books chapters, articles, and other resources dealing with political science, public policy, and international relations
• Ethnic NewsWatch: Comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press
• Gender Studies Database (EBSCO): Coverage of sexual diversity issues as well as gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources
• Homeland Security Digital Library (HDSL): The Homeland Security Digital Library is composed of homeland security related documents collected from a wide variety of sources. These include federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies. Resources are carefully selected and evaluated by a team of librarians and subject-matter specialists
• Project MUSE: Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers. MUSE began in 1993 as a pioneering joint project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at JHU
• Other databases to use for secondary or background research on your topic include: CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online; CQ Global Researcher; Historical Abstracts; and Source OECD

Other Resources

• Background Notes (State Department)
  Provide concise, factual profiles of foreign countries, their history, people, and government.
• Backgrounders (Council on Foreign Relations)
  Current political and economic issues succinctly explained
• CIA World Factbook (CIA)
  Provides current national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies
• Comparative Politics (Rod Library)*
• Country Studies (now defunct series by U.S. Army) 
  Though a bit outdated these are a useful starting point to get information on the history, culture, and government of foreign countries, most of which are in the developing world.
• Food and Agriculture Organization
• International Fund for Agricultural Development
• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance 
• International Monetary Fund
• International Sources (Rod Library)*
• Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
• United Nations
  • Official Document System of the United Nations 
  • UNBISNET
  • UN Conference on Trade and Development
  • UN Development Programme 
    • Human Development Reports
  • UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
  • UN Educational Portal
  • Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • UN Industrial Development Organization
  • Palestine Question
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• World Bank
  • World Bank e-Library
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• World Health Organization (WHO)

Created January 2010 (GG)